The Bi–In–Sn–Zn system is an important alloy system in lead-free soldering. Thermodynamic descriptions for the ternary systems Bi–In–Sn, Bi–In–Zn, Bi–Sn–Zn and In–Sn–Zn are optimized, using the CALPHAD method and combined to obtain a description of the quaternary Bi–In–Sn–Zn. All available experimental data from the literature are taken into consideration in the optimization. Calculated liquidi...

The Quaternary in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), southern Brazil, is geologically represented by the coastal plain and was originated by successive events of Pleistocene-Holocene marine transgressions and the occurrence of alluvial deposits. This paper aimed to characterize the fish assemblage occurring in a swampy Quaternary area adjacent to Lagoa Pequena, a lacustrine system connected t...

Endogenous quaternary ammonium compounds are involved in various physiological processes in the central nervous system. In the present study, eleven quaternary ammonium compounds, including acetylcholine, choline, carnitine, acetylcarnitine and seven other acylcarnitines of low polarity, were analyzed from brain extracts using a two dimension capillary liquid chromatography-Fourier transform ma...

Background. Quaternary structures of proteins are closely relevant to gene regulation, signal transduction, and many other biological functions of proteins. In the current study, a new method based on protein-conserved motif composition in block format for feature extraction is proposed, which is termed block composition. Results. The protein quaternary assembly states prediction system which c...

In this paper, a new construction method of quaternary sequences of even period 2N having the ideal autocorrelation and balance properties is proposed. These quaternary sequences are constructed by applying the inverse Gray mapping to binary sequences of odd period N with the ideal autocorrelation. Autocorrelation distribution of the proposed quaternary sequences is derived. These sequences can...

In this work, a novel quaternary algebra has been proposed that can be used to implement any quaternary logic function. Unlike other variants of quaternary algebra, this algebra is closely related to Boolean algebra and can be used to convert any binary function into quaternary without any significant modification. For this purpose, we have defined a set of quaternary operators and developed tw...